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4. The tides are likewise the running effect of this 

 same centrifugal force. 



5. This centrifugal force exists of itself without 

 any pre-existing cause. 



6. There is no way by which this force is replen- 

 ished. The earth is on the order of * * a fly-wheel detached 

 from its engine". What sort of an engine it was W9 

 cannot say, but we do know that it is not attached and 

 operating now. 



7. To sustain in place the equatorial ring, this 

 centrifugal force continuously expends out of its stored 

 energy 1-289 of the power of gravity, and, to produce 

 the lunar tides, 289-2,811,400 of gravity. 



8. Notwithstanding this lack of an engine and 

 these dissipations of energy, the centrifugal force re- 

 mains intact forever. 



9. The explanation of this mystery is that the 

 centrifugal force is persistent in character, this word 

 having been suggested by Spencer as an improvement on 

 Newton's word inertial. The discovery of this synonym 

 is esteemed one of the great triumphs of cosmic science. 



10. The moon's tidal force is employed in dragging 

 the tides from where the major premiss of the theory 

 says they are generated and ought to appear, to exactly 

 those places where the same theory says they are out of 

 place and ought not to be. 



11. The theory is based on the law of gravitation by 

 converting the clause that reads "varies directly as the 

 product of their masses" into "varies regardless of their 

 densities, ' ' and the clause ' ' inversely as the squares of 

 their distances," into "inversely as the cubes of their 

 distances." 



12. It denies the law and principle of equilibrium in 

 its application to cosmic bodies. 



13. Weighed by the physical facts "it is nearly as 

 much wrong as possible." 



14. It is one of the fundamental gospels of cos- 

 mological science. 



